Your Turn: Your Feedback On Crash, Shutdown, Head Start

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An off-duty corrections officer is accused of ramming his SUV into a vehicle which had his wife, children and mother-in-law inside. It happened on State Route 310 in the St. Lawrence County town of Potsdam and apparently began with a domestic incident:

Does anyone else feel like the whole world is going crazy? Heartbreaking.

Sheila Orchard

My ex tried to use his tractor trailer to push my car off an overpass, with our children inside. Stronger messages need to be sent...that enough is ENOUGH!

Dawn Cree

Most of your feedback this week is about the shutdown of the federal government and its effect local workers and programs:

There is absolutely no doubt that this Congress is the worst in our history. The next election cannot come soon enough for me.

Paul Flannery

Government employees are being treated shamefully in this.

Doug Osborne Sr.

You can add the Head Start preschool program in Jefferson County to the list of things affected by the shutdown of the federal government. The program has enough money to keep going until this Friday:

My son has grown so much and advanced in many areas because of this program! I hate to see it in this situation.

Heather E. Redmond

It is babysitting. Parents should pay for their own kids, not me.

Sean Murphy

Due to the government shutdown, the World War II Veterans Memorial in Washington was closed. However, vets, including some from the north country, didn't let that stop them from seeing it:

Why is it news? The shutdown is hurting more than a WWII monument.

Kelsey Bridget

It's news because these great men deserve to see the monument that is dedicated to them.